Musk’s Grokipedia Launches, Powered by X

Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grokipedia on Oct. 27, an AI‑generated encyclopedia powered by the Grok chatbot and fed by X that briefly went live before some visitors experienced crashes or blocks. The site lists roughly 800,000–885,000 entries and is presented by Musk as a “maximum truth‑seeking” alternative that will “purge out the propaganda,” positioned as less biased than Wikipedia and part of his wider, politically aligned media ecosystem. Unlike crowdsourced Wikipedia pages, Grokipedia’s articles are generated and vetted by Grok, visitors cannot directly edit pages, and many entries currently indicate they were adapted from Wikipedia under a Creative Commons license. Early reporting found ideological framing, omissions and factual errors in entries on topics such as slavery, gender, LGBTQ issues and political figures, prompting concerns about bias and reliability. Critics and researchers warn that concentrating control over a major knowledge platform confers power, and xAI has not fully disclosed Grok’s verification methodology or stopped relying on Wikipedia as it previously said it would.